Re: System password

From	Alan Baker <notonyourlife@no.no.no.no>
Newsgroups	comp.sys.mac.system
Subject	Re: System password
Date	2020-11-30 15:18 -0800
Organization	A noiseless patient Spider
Message-ID	<rq3uk2$tkd$1@dont-email.me> (permalink)
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On 2020-11-30 2:40 p.m., Lewis wrote:
> In message <rq3luu$5gs$1@dont-email.me> Alan Baker <notonyourlife@no.no.no.no> wrote:
>> On 2020-11-30 5:21 a.m., Lewis wrote:
>>> In message <rq2a8h$r1j$1@dont-email.me> Alan Baker <notonyourlife@no.no.no.no> wrote:
>>>> On 2020-11-29 9:06 p.m., Lewis wrote:
>>>>> In message <rq1804$q63$1@dont-email.me> Alan Baker <notonyourlife@no.no.no.no> wrote:
>>>
>>>>>> In a normal Mac user set up, you never need to use your password to
>>>>>> either add items to the keychain or to use them.
>>>    
>>>>> How amusing. I was JUST asked to add a password to my keychain a few
>>>>> minutes ago.
>>>
>>>> But were you asked to provide YOUR password FOR THE KEYCHAIN ITSELF in
>>>> order to do that?
>>>
>>> Yes.
>>>
>>> Hell, i type in my password when using the computer many times a day,
>>> and that is WITH TouchID and a paired Watch, which obviates the need for
>>> many times I need to enter the password.
> 
>> Post screenshot of the place where you turn on that option (to require
>> the user's password to add an entry to the login Keychain).
> 
> I did not change anything. Sometimes the system asks for the keychain
> to be unlocked. It has, as near as I can recall, always done this.

That is something peculiar to your system.

I have used, sold, and supported Macs since 1984, and I've used, and 
supported every version of Mac OS X / macOS with the exception of Big 
Sur, which I've not yet installed...

...and I can tell you the number of times I've encountered a system 
setup to do that: zero.

There are two settings for each keychain:

Lock after [n] minutes of inactivity.

Lock when sleeping.

But neither of them is the default, nor has ever been.

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